December’s Most Watched Games on Twitch: Call of Duty: WWII Enters Top 10 by Esports Hours

December was a steady and relatively quiet month for the top three Most Watched Games on Twitch by esports hours. Dota 2 held onto #1, accumulating 11.8 million esports hours on Twitch, 36% of total hours viewed. DreamHack Winter, MDL Macau, and Dota Summit 8 were responsible for maintaining Dota 2’s top position.

Our Game Streaming Tracker also shows that CS:GO retained the #2 spot. This was mainly pushed by DreamHack and the ESL Pro League, generating 6.8 million esports hours, 36% of total hours watched. League of Legends remained at #3, with 6.2 million esports hours, mostly generated by Riot Games’ All-Stars event.

December’s strongest climber was Call of Duty: WWII, gaining an impressive 28 spots to come in at #5. The game’s esports hours were solely produced by the Call of Duty World League Open in Dallas, gathering a total of 1.6 million esports hours, a 24% share of total hours watched on Twitch.

They Are Billions Enters at #13 by Total Hours Watched

League of Legends kept its reigning spot in December’s Top 20 Games on Twitch by Total Hours Watched, generating 69.6 million hours. PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS held onto #2 with 56.0 million hours thanks to the release of its long-awaited map Miramar and the new vaulting system. Hearthstone gained one position to take #3 with 43.2 million hours watched, driven by the release of Hearthstone’s seventh expansion: Kobolds and Catacombs. Fortnite managed to continue its ascent, surpassing Dota 2 in the ranking. Fortnite released a community-requested 50vs50 game mode, which was playable from December 8th until December 17th.

Path of Exile was December’s strongest climber by total hours, climbing 16 spots to reach #10 with 9.0 million hours watched on Twitch. The highly anticipated expansion War for the Atlas played a notable part in Path of Exile’s growth. They Are Billions was a newcomer to the ranking, released on December 12th. The new type of single-player RTS has quickly become loved by the gaming community. The game attracted the attention of some of Twitch’s largest streamers, generating 6.0 million total hours on Twitch.

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